Samantha Bee: Congress Has the Power to Stop Mass Shootings
We’re pretty deep in denial if we don’t think guns and lax gun laws are making this problem infinitely worse.
We’re pretty deep in denial if we don’t think guns and lax gun laws are making this problem infinitely worse.
Yep, the media are going to get scammed again, willingly. https://t.co/G74DvcXtP0
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 28, 2022
re: #1 Charles Johnson
When this “deal” is inevitably not reached because of republicans, it will be framed as Dems wanting too many restrictions/Dems want to take ALL OUR GUNS AWAY!
As Long As There Have Been Guns in America, There Have Been Attempts to Regulate Them
The legal history of the United States is strongly on the side of the sensible regulation of firearms, no matter what the gun-fondling political right might say.
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This right here is the shit that drives me crazy (a short drive).
It’s not a tipping point. Stop hoping for something that is NEVER GOING TO HAPPEN. https://t.co/qcma5D8Ng2
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 28, 2022
Would somebody please inform Dick Durbin that Republicans are NOT HIS COLLEAGUES?!
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 28, 2022
re: #4 retired cynic
As Long As There Have Been Guns in America, There Have Been Attempts to Regulate Them
The legal history of the United States is strongly on the side of the sensible regulation of firearms, no matter what the gun-fondling political right might say.
esquire.com
“Shall not be infringed” does not mean “without any restrictions”
Sandy Hook should have been a fucking tipping point and that was nearly 10 years ago.
So now what? https://t.co/ry7r4KsRgE
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 28, 2022
So has the beltway gang started lecturing us not to confront Ted Cruz while he’s having dinner yet?
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 28, 2022
re: #4 retired cynic
As Long As There Have Been Guns in America, There Have Been Attempts to Regulate Them
The legal history of the United States is strongly on the side of the sensible regulation of firearms, no matter what the gun-fondling political right might say.
esquire.com
Of course it is, but we (“we” in general, I.e. most Americans) don’t know that, because of a well-financed, all-pervasive and decades-long effort by the Usual Interests to get the country to either forget our lengthy history of firearms regulation, assume it was a regrettable relic of the past, and paint contemporary attempts to utterly deregulate any trade in deadly armaments as a noble effort in the Sacred. Causes of “self-protection” and “defending Constitutional Rights”, or whatever bullshit rhetoric suits…..
IMHO it’s important to remember that mass shootings don’t just happen at schools. We need the kind of change that reduces mass shootings everywhere. Home, work, and schools are all where these shootings happen. These cold-blooded murders.
— Subway Redline (@SubwayRiderGuy) May 28, 2022
A long-standing and fundamental question about dinosaurs may finally have an answer
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Warm or cold blooded? Yes. Mostly warm, some cold. My grade school self would be so surprised!
No surprise now that most, even t-Rex and the great big long-necked wonders, had metabolisms like a small bird!
— Arch (Space Laser Vaccination Supervisor) (@Arch_LGF) May 28, 2022
re: #8 Eclectic Cyborg
I mean, it’s almost as if there’s a deep-seated cultural sickness that has been deliberately cultivated by 40+ years of right-wing propaganda and exacerbated by social media and myriad other factors that people either don’t want to consider or can’t even recognize.
Did you ever watch the TV show “House”? It was a medical mystery show. A typical episode consisted of a patient coming into the hospital with a set of symptoms that suggested a relatively simple malady with an obvious treatment. Then when the obvious treatment didn’t work, the patient developed new symptoms and got dramatically worse. Lo and behold the intrepid doctors discovered that the patient had somehow been shoving radioactive fuel rods up their ass for decades, or something.
I exaggerate, (the show was actually better than that), but this kind of feels like how America is going right now.
re: #9 Dangerman
And there is *no* “tipping point” for them
If twenty dead white first graders didn’t convince Republicans, elected or otherwise, to do anything, nothing will.
Republicans view school massacres as cost of doing business for the view of the 2nd Amendment.
re: #17 Mattand
Republicans don’t give a fuck about the 2nd Amendment. They don’t. They only care about that sweet NRA money. They would gut the entire Bill of Rights tomorrow as long as the money didn’t stop rolling in.
Well, that says it all, doesn’t it? https://t.co/hRLdbl7Bal
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 28, 2022
I can tell you didn’t watch the video.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 28, 2022
Same. https://t.co/MPBdQ897ob
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 28, 2022
re: #9 Dangerman
And there is *no* “tipping point” for them
The tipping point will be when it becomes a losing position politically. Once that happens, they’ll turn on a dime. Voters need to start seeing NRA approval as disqualifying for candidates. Politicians accepting NRA endorsements should be shamed and ridiculed.
re: #19 Charles Johnson
Translation: “WOW THAT WAS CLOSE! WHEW! HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY EVERYBODY! USA! USA! USA! USA! YAY!”
re: #7 Dangerman
“Shall not be infringed” does not mean “without any restrictions”
Good luck with that….some attorney will eventually crawl out of the woodwork, and with a Trump-friendly judges, may make it open season on owning tactical nukes.
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re: #24 Captain Magic
Good luck with that….some attorney will eventually crawl out of the woodwork, and with a Trump-friendly judges, may make it open season on owning tactical nukes.
/(half)
I live near an airport; can I have a shoulder-fired ground-to-air missile? Y’know, just for recreation…
“Colleagues”
You’ll never hear the Democrats brand the Republicans as the party of school massacres, Great Replacement theory, and Covid mass death.
They could do that. But they won’t.
Meanwhile the GOP smear Democrats communists, traitors, and pedophiles.
It’s asymmetric warfare.— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) May 27, 2022
Another view of the Proud Boys outside of the NRA convention this afternoon using homophobic slurs in an attempt to provoke pro gun control protesters.
Some people need to call their dads, uncles, or brothers, and tell them to go home. pic.twitter.com/wwO3HeGgC4— steven monacelli (@stevanzetti) May 28, 2022
This is my kind of pugilistic political debate. pic.twitter.com/DyBcDXfsr6
— Benjamin Wittes (@benjaminwittes) May 27, 2022
Ted Cruz wants every school in America to operate w/ a single point of entry every day. Well, the @NRA & Secret Service couldn’t do it for *one* afternoon to protect Trump. A friend and I walked in an unlocked side door — no screening — past an officer and into reserved seating. pic.twitter.com/bqQfhse5Gw
— Lauren Windsor (@lawindsor) May 28, 2022
re: #2 GlutenFreeJesus
When this “deal” is inevitably not reached because of republicans, it will be framed as Dems wanting too many restrictions/Dems want to take ALL OUR GUNS AWAY!
I still want to see how ‘better messaging’ or ‘more fight’ is supposed to get past this kind of shit.
re: #30 jaunte
The Columbine shooters originally planned to set off bombs in the school cafeteria and then shoot survivors as they ran out of the nearest single exit. The reason they abandoned that plan was that their bombs didn’t work.
re: #8 Eclectic Cyborg
Sandy Hook should have been a fucking tipping point and that was nearly 10 years ago.
In Vegas, over 500 people were shot with 60 killed. This was at a redneck country concert full of 2A types, and even them getting their asses shot off didn’t change their minds.
re: #33 Ace Rothstein
Yep. Deadliest shooting in American history and we’ll never even know why the guy did it.
Throwback to the @NRA’s annual meeting in Dallas in 2018. #txlege
pic.twitter.com/6ONVhlJytG— Text ACT to 644-33 (@shannonrwatts) May 28, 2022
Yes, it appears that the Uvalde shooter purchased his weapons — which cost several thousands of dollars — on credit. The fact that most gun stores & manufacturers have financing plans is a wide open door to impulse-buy deadly weapons, and I’m shocked this isn’t talked about more.
— Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D (@RVAwonk) May 28, 2022
The Wordle on Sunday. Mine looks like flaming wreckage falling from the sky, and played like it too.
Wordle 344 5/6
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450 million firearms in the USA just among the private citizens. It is no accident that there are this many guns in our country. It is by design so that there would be no way in hell any legislation would ever get those guns back. It’s about money, plain and simple, like everything else. The Divided States of Capitalism.
re: #37 jaunte
I’ve seen this going around Twitter with no sourcing.
Quick “post and run”…
On the artillery in Ukraine…
1. The Russians are thought to have deployed ~4700 cannon
2. The Ukrainians are thought to have started with about 1800. Of the same types as the Russians.
3. The US is/has sent 108 M777. Up from 90 a couple of weeks ago.
4. The French have sent 12 ‘Ceaser’ mobile cannon.
5. The Estonians are thought to have provided about 12 Italian made FH70’s.
6. The Italians have about 90 FH70’s and may send some as well.
7. The US has about 415 HIMARS. (375 Army, 40 in Marines). Lockheed produces about 30 per year. The US is planning on announcing sending some to Ukraine. No numbers have been mentioned yet, that I have seen. (This number may include tracked as well as wheeled versions.)
8. Poland has reportedly ordered 500 HIMARS.
9. The US is now talking about sending the M109 Self propelled 155mm howitzer.
10. Czech has reportedly sent their 152mm mobile Dana. They had on the order of 30 iirc. I have not seen any report on how many were sent. To me anyway, ‘All’ would sound quite reasonable.
11. I suspect that most every NATO country is currently cleaning out their storage facilities of former Soviet equipment. It’s all 30-40 years old or more. Less functional than current NATO equipment. And, after watching the Russian’s various problems with it, probably no longer marketable to any ‘real’ military.
PLEASE RETWEET!
The process to get the NRA’s tax-exempt nonprofit status revoked has become simpler. All you need to do is save this form and email it to eoclass@irs.gov. It’s all filled out for you. You just need to click send. pic.twitter.com/xw5MGEJZEk— Allen Glines (@AllenBGlines) May 28, 2022
re: #37 jaunte
That doesn’t surprise me. You can finance practically any-fucking-thing these days.
My wife recently financed some concert tickets.
re: #36 jaunte
Throwback to the NRA’s annual meeting in Dallas in 2018
So Maverick is now old enough to attend school (and to shoot one up).
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 28, 2022
re: #7 Dangerman
“Shall not be infringed” does not mean “without any restrictions”
How can a militia be well regulated without regulations?
Lauren Boebert was laughed at and mocked by the entire audience at her debate on Thursday, after she accused her opponent of being an “illegal drug dealer” for supposedly selling “hot hemp.” pic.twitter.com/U8FoF9U9u8
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) May 28, 2022
Let’s get this man elected. Y’all know you wanna hear me sing El Paso and True Love Will Find You In The End https://t.co/1zEiAPPBjA
— Jason Isbell (@JasonIsbell) May 28, 2022
re: #34 Eclectic Cyborg
Yep. Deadliest shooting in American history and we’ll never even know why the guy did it.
I know people who knew that guy. While they can’t be sure, one hypothesis was that he wanted to see if/how he can figure out to carry out the biggest mass shooting in history. Like a fucked up puzzle to be solved.
That he offed himself 10 or 15 minutes into the shooting rather than continuing to try and kill as many as possible maybe means that the full realization of what he was doing hit home.
re: #47 A Cranky One
Watch for drones trailing cable.
re: #2 GlutenFreeJesus
Dems want to take ALL OUR GUNS AWAY!
According to my Twitter feed, which of course is ALMOST CERTAINLY the final arbiter of all reality, there is a non-zero contingent of left-leaning people who actually feel this way.
“The Constitution doesn’t contemplate assault rifles,” they say, echoing Alito’s leaked Roe decision.
They’re full of things that “the Founders Never Imagined”, while not stopping to think that “the founders” also never imagined things like the Internet, personally-owned printers, encryption, and black women legally allowed to vote.
They are utterly oblivious to the notion that a “war on guns” would be waged by the same heroes and geniuses who waged the “war on drugs”.
I love this paragraph in the ‘terms and conditions’ of a site I am about to order something from (yes I read them sometimes. Don’t want to end up the middle processor of a human centipede).
Thane shall be excused from liability for non-delivery or delay in delivery of products and services available through this Website arising from any event beyond Thane’s reasonable control, whether or not foreseeable by Thane, including but not limited to labor disturbance, war, fire, accident, adverse weather, inability to secure transportation, governmental act or regulation, act of terrorism (actual or threatened), or other causes or events beyond Thane’s reasonable control, whether or not similar to those which are enumerated above.
re: #52 GlutenFreeJesus
So bog standard GOP hack as opposed to crazy pants fascist clown.
re: #57 gocart mozart
So bog standard GOP hack as opposed to crazy pants fascist clown.
I like the one about Medicare coverage for horseback riding.
re: #54 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce
It’s also pretty obvious the founders didn’t contemplate the Constitution being used to ensure its own destruction or mass killings sanctioned by the government under it either. Not being able to think about the future is neither a think we should think means it’s ok or it’s bad. Our arguments should stand on their own, and theirs should, too.
We have basically banned these types of weapons before, and we can do it again. And no, I’m not talking about the assault weapons band, but how we eliminated the Tommy gun. And we can get there with something similar.
What you’re describing is how a group of people desperate to get rid of these type of guns in a climate where a minority of people are setting the rules for the rest of the country. And I totally understand. But kids are dying, and whining about these attempts to stop the slaughter seems to be focused on the wrong target.
re: #60 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
Hmm.
In a way, I’m rather surprised they show up so much. They’re expensive middle tier rifles. I’d have expected cheap rifles, say PSA or Century Arms, instead. Just a “hmm” point to me, don’t know that it means anything.
re: #60 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
Daniel Defense has posted this banner on their website:
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Daniel Defense also manufactured 2 of the 15 AR-15s used in the 2017 Las Vegas shooting.
Thoughts and Prayers X2 in that one. This is getting serious.
— small but savage (@squidlyyy) May 27, 2022
I was looking for a DVD to watch in the local library this afternoon and came across Mass. I had heard of it through a film-review podcast, so I knew what I was getting into. In terms of the acting, it’s superb. The parents of a school shooter and the parents of one of the victims come together in a sparse room in an Episcopal church by arrangement of one family’s grief counselor. The only thing that felt off is that it tiptoed past gun availability toward mental health, but it’s a subtle movie and I could be wrong. Highly recommend.
re: #55 Moe Avattar
Remember kids, the “Pro-Life” states are exactly where it’s easy to get a gun to shoot somebody.
Mic check: Gov Abbott practicing sounding sincere #txlege #TexasBlackout pic.twitter.com/ZUyuQejJJ3
— Scott Braddock (@scottbraddock) February 25, 2021
That’s when you know he’s not “right” in the head. Normal people don’t react like that. https://t.co/tiPp8sw79u
— Carol Morgan (@CounselorCarol1) May 28, 2022
Here’s where you can lead disingenuous partisans like Ted Cruz when they insist declining church attendance causes gun deaths. Sad fact is gun deaths RISE w/the % of state who attends weekly & they FALL as the % of a state who seldom/never attends increases. Strong correlations. pic.twitter.com/2JwriG2M2u
— Samuel Perry (@profsamperry) May 28, 2022
In 2022, 20% more students have been shot and killed at school than cops have been shot and killed in the line of duty.
— Kaivan Shroff (@KaivanShroff) May 28, 2022
I hate to be a stickler, but why is Jesus wearing a cross? pic.twitter.com/7WU8sjHiiR
— Chip franklin.com (@chipfranklin) May 28, 2022
re: #1 Charles Johnson
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It’s the same scam we’ve seen again and again: Prominent Repub signals they’re “open to compromise” on a bill, so that when they inevitably slag the proposed bill and scream that it’s “partisan,” the media leap to their defense by suggesting that Dems need to be the ones to move further towards the Repub position rather than admitting that Repubs are unreasonable dickheads.
re: #70 gocart mozart
As part of a God, he sensed his future, and that was the most badass bling possible under the circumstances. That, or the artist did not think things through.
You know what? I really love RATT’s song “Round and Round.”
re: #61 William Lewis
Hmm.
In a way, I’m rather surprised they show up so much. They’re expensive middle tier rifles. I’d have expected cheap rifles, say PSA or Century Arms, instead. Just a “hmm” point to me, don’t know that it means anything.
Being able to buy the guns on credit means you get go up a little bit, especially if you don’t expect to pay the bill.
Note also that when Repubs say they’re “open to compromise,” it’s because they’re never the ones to actually propose a bill. Either bill is put forward by the Dems and declared “partisan” or it’s the result of “Gang of X” group of “moderates” that shows why the saying that a camel is a horse designed by committee is absolutely accurate.
In Poland, there is a LARP group that roleplays as contemporary Americans. Here they are doing “Ohio.” pic.twitter.com/ckZRIYZHzV
— ✨𝖇𝖊𝖓✨ (@PenBercifield) May 28, 2022
re: #61 William Lewis
Hmm.
In a way, I’m rather surprised they show up so much. They’re expensive middle tier rifles. I’d have expected cheap rifles, say PSA or Century Arms, instead. Just a “hmm” point to me, don’t know that it means anything.
He bought them on credit. He knew he was never going to pay.
A blaze of glory. Going out in a Blaze of Glory.
Just like Jeebuzz.
re: #74 Barefoot Grin
Of all the Los Angeles Sunset Strip hair metal bands of that era, Warren DiMartini was one of the most creative guitarists among a sea of wankers. George Lynch was another one.
re: #74 Barefoot Grin
You know what? I really love RATT’s song “Round and Round.”
Oh, yeah. I love to take the T-tops off my 455 cubic-inch Trans-Camaro, throw that 8-track into the dash and turn the sound up to eleven!
re: #61 William Lewis
Hmm.
In a way, I’m rather surprised they show up so much. They’re expensive middle tier rifles. I’d have expected cheap rifles, say PSA or Century Arms, instead. Just a “hmm” point to me, don’t know that it means anything.
If you aren’t planning to survive your massacre, might as well use the best weapons you can get.
re: #70 gocart mozart
Yeah like that one painting I saw a while ago (can’t remember its name or the artist). It was a painting of Jesus in the manger, with a crucifix (with him on it) on the stall wall. Talk about foreshadowing.
If the killer had been prosecuted for his online threats, the massacre may have been averted.
NEW: We interviewed teen girls who met the alleged Uvalde gunman online and said he had threatened to kidnap, rape or kill them. But either their reports were ignored or they said that’s just “how online is.” https://t.co/9RpBMYZFip
— Silvia Foster-Frau (@SilviaElenaFF) May 28, 2022
re: #77 Belafon
Back in the eighties, I went to a country western club in England; it was absolutely hilarious.
re: #87 No Malarkey!
Back in the eighties, I went to a country western club in England; it was absolutely hilarious.
This band is Swedish:
re: #86 No Malarkey!
If the killer had been prosecuted for his online threats, the massacre may have been averted.
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it’s always about misogyny, isn’t it? so predictable.
re: #24 Captain Magic
Good luck with that….some attorney will eventually crawl out of the woodwork, and with a Trump-friendly judges, may make it open season on owning tactical nukes.
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Conversation with a guy I know who I used to cross swords with at the church where the elders want to execute women. He’s since moved on to the church of Douglas Wilson, the wannabe Pope of the Palouse, up in Moscow, ID.
re: #76 Targetpractice
Note also that when Repubs say they’re “open to compromise,” it’s because they’re never the ones to actually propose a bill. Either bill is put forward by the Dems and declared “partisan” or it’s the result of “Gang of X” group of “moderates” that shows why the saying that a camel is a horse designed by committee is absolutely accurate.
+1
re: #75 Belafon
Being able to buy the guns on credit means you get go up a little bit, especially if you don’t expect to pay the bill.
I wonder if the store will try to repossess the stuff he bought?
re: #82 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce
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I can smell the AquaNet and cigarettes from here.
What we used to call a can a day habit
re: #60 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
Daniel Defense has posted this banner on their website:
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Daniel Defense also manufactured 2 of the 15 AR-15s used in the 2017 Las Vegas shooting.
Daniel Defense, for all your mass shooting needs.
re: #94 stpaulbear
I wonder if the store will try to repossess the stuff he bought?
After it’s released from the evidence locker?
re: #98 Crush White Nationalism
I have a can too. My hair is long. But not long enough to stay out of my face so l spray it down on office days.
Abbott says shooter had a ‘mental health challenge’ (yeah sure)
He said “the state” needed to do a better job with mental health
Last month he cut $211m from Texas mental health programs
Texas ranks last out of all 50 states and DC for overall access to mental health care.. quelle surprise.
re: #97 Jay C
After it’s released from the evidence locker?
They should be destroyed, but that probably violates Texas law.
re: #91 mmmirele
His retweeters and allies appear to be a mix of anti-semites and anti-vax loons.
2015
I’m EMBARRASSED: Texas #2 in nation for new gun purchases, behind CALIFORNIA. Let’s pick up the pace Texans. @NRA https://t.co/Ry2GInbS1g
— Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) October 28, 2015
re: #104 Dangerman
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Then the rule is, everyone that owns a gun needs to have a psychic evaluation every 3 years to maintain their license to own the gun(s). By an honest to goodness, licensed psychologist.
re: #106 Eventual Carrion
Good suggestion. I would like to see that as a requirement.
re: #103 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
His retweeters and allies appear to be a mix of anti-semites and anti-vax loons.
Why yes, yes they are. He’s a hate follow for me.
I have an idea, how about we get those corporations and billionaires to help out? I dunno, we could call it something like, “pitch in” so that all of the burden is on tax payers. Wait, that’s it! Taxes! They should pay just like I do! #Tax https://t.co/mLT0qfoMa7
— Patti Piatt (@PiattPatti) May 28, 2022
re: #106 Eventual Carrion
Then the rule is, everyone that owns a gun needs to have a psychic evaluation every 3 years to maintain their license to own the gun(s). By an honest to goodness, licensed psychologist.
Back in the day (1999), my psychiatrist had to sign off on me continuing to keep a Utah driver’s license after I had a psychotic break and spent 10 days in the hospital. You know they ain’t doing any such thing for gun nuts.
re: #90 sagehen
it’s always about misogyny, isn’t it? so predictable.
These assholes are inkblots. Everyone can find their favorite etiology in them. At this stage we don’t know, so all guesses are arguable. The best guess is that the sources are a lot more complex than we want to entertain.
We’re constantly asked to show deference to officer’s fear. We have to understand that they feared for their life so they had no choice but to kill an unarmed subject. Now they had no choice but to let children die because they were afraid. https://t.co/I7b1BDGRBD
— Jason Inofuentes (@tnofuentes) May 28, 2022
re: #90 sagehen
it’s always about misogyny, isn’t it? so predictable.
All the way to the end. From the pictures, it appears that he murdered five boys. All the others were girls.
re: #109 Backwoods_Sleuth
We need to do something about the guns, and about every Republican who went along with the coup attempt or worked to cover it up after the fact. It’s time for any Republican who isn’t fully corrupt to work with the rest of us to clean up this mess.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) May 28, 2022
Yeah, I know. They could carpool to the defenders of children and democracy meeting in one car.
See no good.
Hear no good.
Speak no good.
Do no good.
The NRA. https://t.co/82B3WhGzZC— Harry Turtledove (@HNTdove) May 28, 2022
— 🎭🤘🎸Mark d. Ziglar🎤🏁🌞 (@MarkZiglar) May 28, 2022
there’s a place called “point nemo” aka “the oceanic pole of inaccessibility” that’s described as somewhere absolutely no human has been, in the middle of the entire ocean. they say if somehow you end up here, the closest person isn’t even on earth, but the astronauts in space🫢 pic.twitter.com/SoIfvRrP7H
— SIDEREAL💎 (@sidereal_siren) May 27, 2022
because it sits in a current away from nutrient filled water, there isn’t a lot of deep sea life if any there. the only thing significant about point nemo is that it’s basically a cemetery for spacecrafts that reenter earth to safely crash and “die” in.
— SIDEREAL💎 (@sidereal_siren) May 27, 2022
Got a live one here…
The far left is basically communism. You sound like some ignorant Libtard. Our government is controlled by (((communists))). The far left is pushing homosexuality and transgender on children.
— Mike Piperata (@MikePiperata) May 28, 2022
United States national rifle convention enters second day of celebrations.
Children under 12 admitted free of charge. pic.twitter.com/lU2gnkB35e— DPRK News Service (@DPRK_News) May 28, 2022
Just staggering to imagine a parent who refuses to share food with their child https://t.co/cqSSoScQaU
— Jonathan Chait (@jonathanchait) May 28, 2022
While @tedcruz still pushes the “good guy with a gun” idiocy, his colleague tries the “split second decisions” line.
You two really ought to try learning more about what the cops did in Uvalde and how long it took them to do it.
Sounds like you’re going to be shocked! https://t.co/dpdRRWCecN— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) May 28, 2022
LOL
STFU ted
The elites in society have the loudest megaphone when it comes to gun control.
They live in gated neighborhoods and have private security. pic.twitter.com/ChL1ObbcbV— Senator Ted Cruz (@SenTedCruz) May 28, 2022
re: #119 Backwoods_Sleuth
really? REALLY???
Yeah, I know. Pure John Birch. And if I can get him going with the “pretend you’re a christian” dig, I’ll bet on equally pure Calvinism.
re: #124 William Lewis
Yeah, I know. Pure John Birch. And if I can get him going with the “pretend you’re a christian” dig, I’ll bet on equally pure Calvinism.
I’m still shaking my head over the deliberate use of ((( ))) meaning “Jewish communists”
good grief
re: #123 Backwoods_Sleuth
Yes, Ted. We believe properly trained security personnel should have guns.
Crazy, I know.
/
re: #118 William Lewis
Dude wouldn’t know a far leftist if I bit him.
re: #34 Eclectic Cyborg
Yep. Deadliest shooting in American history and we’ll never even know why the guy did it.
Because he could.
re: #126 Eclectic Cyborg
Yes, Ted. We believe properly trained security personnel should have guns.
Crazy, I know.
/
Preferably ones that aren’t cowards… (no sarc)
Yeah, why won’t anyone talk about how massive the crowd was at Trump’s insurrection attempt?! 🤦🏻♀️🙃 https://t.co/Rhbs0z0rPr
— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) May 28, 2022
Everyone keepin track of the BS excuses for trump’s incitement of insurrection we’ve been fed so far?
BLM did it
Antifa did it
Dems did it
FBI did it
Capitol cops did it
It took place during the transition so no foul
All Americans are to blame
Media hoax
It never happened
Pardons https://t.co/0ABWHhNZ9A— Luke Zaleski (@ZaleskiLuke) May 28, 2022
re: #132 Backwoods_Sleuth
Trump: The persecution of the January 6th political prisoners. You know a lot of them are still in jail… How many people that have killed people are still in jail?
Pretty ballsy (and gutless) for someone who could have pardoned them all.
wait, whut?
MAGA hero, actor Jon Voigt, goes off the rails on them after the Uvalde school shooting: “There should be proper qualifications for gun ownership. Proper testing. One should only own a gun if they’re qualified and schooled.” pic.twitter.com/mvdepiLdWo
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) May 28, 2022
re: #133 Decatur Deb
Pretty ballsy (and gutless) for someone who could have pardoned them all.
How many people that have been killed are still in jail? Hopefully 0. Senility is creeping in.
re: #135 JC1
How many people that have been killed are still in jail? Hopefully 0. Senility is creeping in.
Let me help, I speak Fasc-jive: He means that not many people who have killed are still in jail. He’s absurdly wrong, of course.
re: #132 Backwoods_Sleuth
Trump: How many people who have killed people are still in jail?
A whole helluva lot of them who have been tried, found guilty, and sentenced are in the midst of serving their sentences.
How many killer cops who the system protects are running around free and lionized by society?
How many killer Trumpers like Kyle Rittenhouse who were let off by the system are still walking free?
Not bat related but a rescue definitely worth sharing. Good friends of mine were walking at Loch Faskally today where they found this little bundle of misery in the water - a baby Tawny owl. Likely rejected from the nest. pic.twitter.com/mZYVXWGzhq
— 🦇 The Bat Bothy 🦇 (@TheBatBothy) May 28, 2022
A quick clean and dry later, the owlet was tucked up warm and the SSPCA called. Owlet is now on their way to the SSPCA wildlife rehab centre. An amazing rescue. Good luck little Tawny owl, we love you! pic.twitter.com/bsV8GI8Zwo
— 🦇 The Bat Bothy 🦇 (@TheBatBothy) May 28, 2022
re: #139 Backwoods_Sleuth
Another assault on parental discretion.
re: #130 Backwoods_Sleuth
Looking at the banner at the bottom, we see that Newsmax is pimping a scheme to mislead seniors.
That website is an add for “The Franklin Prosperity Report”, a paid subscription.
All the information it promises is free online, much of it from the SS administration.
Trump says the way to stop the war in Ukraine is to stop all the windmills pic.twitter.com/D9OXkZMfDd
— Acyn (@Acyn) May 28, 2022
re: #141 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
The fine print at that website:
IMPORTANT NOTE: Sales tax included where applicable. Your trial subscriptions come with a convenient automatic renewal. At the end of your trial subscription, we will notify you. If you want to keep the publication(s), do nothing and we will renew your subscription using your credit/debit card on file and charge you $49.95 for one year (12 issues) of The Franklin Prosperity Report and $109 for one year (12 issues) of The Dividend Machine. And then every year thereafter at the lowest renewal rates then in effect. There is no risk, you can cancel within the first six months for a full refund of the unused portion of your subscription.
They are betting the seniors are too senile to cancel, thus getting $160 from them.
Everything touched by Trump is a scam.
re: #141 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Looking at the banner at the bottom, we see that Newsmax is pimping a scheme to mislead seniors….
Shurley, they wouldn’t do that.
So sick of these criminals whining about the consequences of their actions and courts coddling them https://t.co/Tie0vOGOFE
— justice4all 🏳️🌈⚖🇺🇦 (@justice4all01) May 28, 2022
re: #147 Backwoods_Sleuth
Oy. These idiots don’t get it. For their actions against the gov’t they have to pay the price.
what could possibly go wrong?
At the NRA convention today, Brevard (FL) Sheriff Wayne Ivey says that instead of arming teachers, schools should have custodians, maintenance staff, and librarians carrying firearms on campus. pic.twitter.com/jMUd9BJJiY
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) May 28, 2022
re: #148 PhillyPretzel
Oy. These idiots don’t get it. For their actions against the gov’t they have to pay the price.
They were told there would be no math.
This is disgusting, even by the NRA’s extremely low standards. Jesus. https://t.co/ANPs52NIFQ
— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) May 28, 2022
re: #151 Decatur Deb
Or a custodian who makes the kids who threw up clean up the mess they made while a gun is pointed at them.
re: #143 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
The fine print at that website:
They are betting the seniors are too senile to cancel, thus getting $160 from them.
Seniors rarely forget about when the end date of a free subscription is coming up. Seniors don’t want to pay for anything. They keep in fighting shape with Amazon Prime free trials.
re: #154 stpaulbear
Seniors rarely forget about when the end date of a free subscription is coming up. Seniors don’t want to pay for anything. They keep in fighting shape with Amazon Prime free trials.
Heh, I just concluded one of those.
I don’t order much from Amazon, usually once a month, so Prime doesn’t make sense for me.
But I used to be a Prime member, so now every year or so Amazon tries to tempt me back.
Yeah. I can tell Sam Bee is Canadian. We get that way when we’re pissed.
re: #156 Romantic Heretic
Yeah. I can tell Sam Bee is Canadian. We get that way when we’re pissed.
Is this whole fukn’ place snowbirds? ‘Cause I can tell you, we know how to handle snowbirds here at the Alabama-Florida border.
It’s much easier for you to spew garbage and pray to your imaginary friend than it is to actually do helpful things to improve our society. https://t.co/pJKOKnLKTN
— Charlie Brigden (@filmsonwax) May 28, 2022
‘I Think She Looks Good’: Trump Puts Pic of Liz Cheney With George Bush’s Face on Screen at Rally in Wyoming https://t.co/vf0C04F62M
— Mediaite (@Mediaite) May 28, 2022
Don’t forget Ted Cruz’ dad was a pulpit pimp from the Benny Hinn camp.
Mobile friendly war map updated by Finnish reservists trying to filter out misinformation. Good link to bookmark.
scribblemaps.com
re: #155 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Heh, I just concluded one of those.
I don’t order much from Amazon, usually once a month, so Prime doesn’t make sense for me.
But I used to be a Prime member, so now every year or so Amazon tries to tempt me back.
I ordered today and turned down a trial membership offer. I hope it annoys then that I won’t take Prime for free. I don’t pay for shipping anyway because I just wait until I can order over the minimum. I’d like to think that employees don’t have to bust their bladders over picking my slow orders, but Amazon probably just holds my orders back and makes them bust their bladders anyway.
re: #160 Decatur Deb
Don’t forget Ted Cruz’ dad was a pulpit pimp from the Benny Hinn camp.
I read that as Benny Hill camp… Makes more sense.
Lost another brilliant character actor. Farewell Bo Hopkins pic.twitter.com/UrB9MrIK8F
— Vintage Los Angeles (@alisonmartino) May 28, 2022
The Proud Boys showed up outside the NRA convention today. From @ScooterCasterNY pic.twitter.com/ncIxeStenS
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) May 29, 2022
The Master Race pic.twitter.com/5IHVKiSWwC
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) May 29, 2022
re: #168 Backwoods_Sleuth
To paraphrase a saying from many years ago: Don’t fire until you see the white of their skin.
re: #158 Backwoods_Sleuth
Our culture is failing, Ted Cruz, because you assholes won’t put in the work to preserve it and improve it to actually make things better for real people. You would rather have wealth, and power, and the underclass kowtowing to your every debased whim, and Cancun beach vacations in the midst of emergencies.
Ummmmm… pic.twitter.com/E9TmK8IIEm
— Mythical Misandrist 💛🐝 (@MrsBenTarr) May 29, 2022
re: #171 Belafon
I had some of that today. I enjoyed Sense and Sensibility.
Welcome to America, where logic never applies to anything, ever. https://t.co/bhSyPl650n
— Naima Cochrane (@naima) May 29, 2022
It appears the latest Kindle Fire no longer has a Microsoft port.
Boo, Amazon.
“Illegal aliens that happen to like knives very much. You know that.” https://t.co/LkLUFkxOBa
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) May 29, 2022
“…librarians carrying firearms on campus.”
I don’t know if that will dissuade any shooters, but it will put a dent in the overdue book problem.
re: #176 terraincognita
And it might lead to quieter libraries.
oh lawdy i hope ted cruz is able to eat his dinner in peace tonight without having to think about murdered children
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 29, 2022
Tell me you know nothing about baseball, golf, religion, business, the world, or fat…without telling me you know nothing about baseball, golf, religion, business, the world, or fat pic.twitter.com/cNCb8JwZqS
— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) May 29, 2022
BREAKING: Federal Appeals Court rules against Madison Cawthorn, holds that 14th Amendment can be used to disqualify insurrectionists from office.
Bad news for Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert, Paul Gosar, Mo Brooks — and Donald Trump.— Tristan Snell (@TristanSnell) May 28, 2022
re: #179 Backwoods_Sleuth
What a seriously deluded motherfucker.
Whoever recommended the movie Mass, thank you.
Steve tells Brad a joke. pic.twitter.com/4Lw8dAqKsZ
— In Otter News…. (@In_Otter_News2) May 28, 2022
This is Peewee. His human took some photos of him with a fisheye lens. It is the optimal way to experience Peewee. Please enjoy. 14/10 #SeniorPupSaturday pic.twitter.com/PPxPPBLIrs
— WeRateDogs® (@dog_rates) May 28, 2022
Let’s get this man elected. Y’all know you wanna hear me sing El Paso and True Love Will Find You In The End https://t.co/1zEiAPPBjA
— Jason Isbell (@JasonIsbell) May 28, 2022
This is Twitter, Tom, not a streaming service. I do plenty of singing on the streaming services. If your kids are still speaking to you, ask them how to listen to music on your phone. https://t.co/FUe7CLrx3X
— Jason Isbell (@JasonIsbell) May 28, 2022
re: #185 Backwoods_Sleuth
Get back to your job of swallowing sewage instead of being on here.
— Blue in Red Texas (@RockwallBlue) May 29, 2022
I tried to find a job that wouldn’t be considered demeaning any other job.
Edit: And then I had to fix a typo.
re: #185 Backwoods_Sleuth
Also:
Apparently “we won’t take requests, we won’t shut up and sing“ wasn’t clear enough I guess 🤷🏻♂️
— Jeramie Edwards (@Jse_80) May 28, 2022
California Gov. Gavin Newsom tested positive for COVID-19, a day after a high-profile meeting with the visiting prime minister of New Zealand. https://t.co/KUFQQ7uUjN
— ABC News (@ABC) May 29, 2022
How about this:
American Pie is a terrible piece of songwriting. Trite, ham-handed and way too long. It sucked in 72 and has not held up well since. The NRA can have it. They too have gone on way too long.
— Drive-By Truckers (@drivebytruckers) May 28, 2022
re: #190 Belafon
How about this:
he probably really hates Vincent
Now, I understand, what you tried to say to me
How you suffered for your sanity
How you tried to set them free
They would not listen, they did not know how
Perhaps they’ll listen now
For they could not love you
But still your love was true
And when no hope was left inside
On that starry, starry night
You took your life as lovers often do
But I could have told you, Vincent
This world was never meant for one
As beautiful as you
Starry, starry night
Portraits hung in empty halls
Frameless heads on nameless walls
With eyes that watch the world and can’t forget
Like the strangers that you’ve met
The ragged men in ragged clothes
The silver thorn of bloody rose
Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow
Now, I think I know what you tried to say to me
How you suffered for your sanity
How you tried to set them free
They would not listen, they’re not listening still
Perhaps they never will
Just remembering the raw power of NIN at the top of their everything. I played Downward Spiral 500 times.
Woodstock 94 they did this.
Another world. That long ago. Damn. Take you inside crazy and get you to scream along. They could do it.
This is the whole set. But I just wanted to highlight Closer because it just rips.
It will play on after that.
But this is loud and really loud good. NSFW but it’s Saturday, eh?
have a fine evening
re: #185 Backwoods_Sleuth
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I guess “Yellow Rose of Texas” is out of the question? How about “Luckenbach Texas”? Or “All My Exes Live in Texas”? “La Grange”? “Miles and Miles of Texas”?
re: #185 Backwoods_Sleuth
I really hate the “shut up and _______” people.
As if folks in certain professions don’t have the right to express an opinion.
re: #194 Eclectic Cyborg
I really hate the “shut up and _______” people.
As if folks in certain professions don’t have the right to express an opinion.
Jason hated it so much he put it in “Be Afraid.”
imagine being buried and then seeing a rat with a backpack suddenly arrive. it would be all i was even capable of talking about ever again https://t.co/LvlQBl0Vu2
— (wannabe) Ƀreaker of (the Bad) Loops (@generativist) May 27, 2022
if I wasn’t certain I was having a near death experience by that point, I’d be absolutely sure at that moment- perhaps even convinced I’m already dead
— Christopher Harper // .tv/TheyCallMeContra (@CallMeContra) May 28, 2022
Junior went on a wild rant about Uvalde tonight, saying the AR-15 isn’t the issue because he could’ve done the “exact same thing” with a bat, bomb or machete. He says gun owners are unfairly “stigmatatized,” and the real problem is that “crazy teachers” are indoctrinating kids. pic.twitter.com/2Rmme3510A
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) May 29, 2022
The estate and family of Isaac Hayes DID NOT approve and would NEVER approve the use of “Hold on I’m coming’” by Sam and Dave by Donald Trump at this weekends @NRA convention.
Our condolences go out to the victims and families of #Uvalde and mass shooting victims everywhere.— Isaac Hayes (@isaachayes) May 28, 2022
Happy weekend! Please enjoy these service dogs in training who aren’t yet used to their first vests. pic.twitter.com/FzZx0PxYbZ
niterz, lizardz!
re: #19 Charles Johnson
Sorry parents of 19 brutally murdered children. We’re good though.
— Tooey (@SueRic2) May 28, 2022
A tweet showed up in my feed for an artist named Amythist Kiah (she and her wife/partner got to buy a house, and ice cream after). I hadn’t heard her but went to go listen. She plays guitar and banjo.
And her cover of Tori Amos’s “Sugar”:
Ted Cruz, a millionaire who has taken money from the NRA is calling people who don’t want children to die in mass shootings “Elites”#TedCruzChildMassacre pic.twitter.com/zx8SLd6BVJ
— 💀FedUpViking💀 (@DeathMetalV) May 28, 2022
re: #192 nines09
I’m there somewhere in that crowd of mud people.
re: #205 Dangerman
Ted Cruz lives a gated existence.
re: #200 Backwoods_Sleuth
Yeah, they need to stick to country music and Ted Nugent.
I really don’t understand why they pick black music and don’t stick to music by republican leaning musicians. Oh wait…yeah.. I know why.
— I’mthatgurl (@lahdidahbabee) May 29, 2022
OT: so… anybody watch this week’s Better Call Saul? Comments?
re: #210 sagehen
OT: so… anybody watch this week’s Better Call Saul? Comments?
Great show. Heckuva ending to the mid season finale.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau today announced a ban on some 1,500 makes and models of military-grade and “assault-style” weapons in Canada, effective immediately.
— Rahma Being (@RahmaBeing) May 29, 2022
re: #203 Decatur Deb
May 28 is Memorial Day here, the day the Decatur Deb went in.
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re: #212 No Malarkey!
Oh Canada!!! That’s the way you do it. I’m kind of surprised that this ban wasn’t in place in Canada already. Grew up there and guns are not nearly as prolific (and revered) as they are here in the U.S. You have to jump through hoops to even legally own one.
re: #212 No Malarkey!
It’s fucking infuriating how quickly this can happen in other countries vs. nothing ever changing here.
Note to Ted: Doors did not work to protect the Capitol. They won’t work to protect schools.
— Aaron Parnas (@AaronParnas) May 28, 2022
If you watch one video this week, make it this one.
The Texas mob on the #Uvalde stage were just schooled with facts. @GregAbbott_TX @DanPatrick @KenPaxtonTX @JohnCornyn Ted Cruz and @DadePhelan https://t.co/WVhu0sWtH2— M_Tex 🌻📀📀💿 (@M23412963) May 29, 2022
Want Free College? Look to West Virginia.
The Mountaineer State is the first in the nation to waive tuition for AmeriCorps members.
washingtonmonthly.com
Good stuff!
😆
Adm. Daryl Caudle can confirm there’s NOTHING boring about flying upside down in an F/A-18 Super Hornet like @TomCruise in @TopGunMovie.
Here is the commander of U.S. Fleet Forces Command before watching #TopGunMaverick with Sailors at @nas_oceana on Saturday. https://t.co/He4bt9iueP pic.twitter.com/zB8KR7Teid— U.S. Fleet Forces (@USFleetForces) May 27, 2022
The Women Who Ran Genghis Khan’s Empire
From fighting in the army to managing the kingdom, women were key players in every aspect of the Mongol Empire.
atlasobscura.com
Just watched the first episode of The Lincoln Lawyer on Netflix - looks like it could be a fun series. Enjoyed the movie with Matthew McConaughey. This is not quite the same - more character build up of course, but it’s not relying on a single character to drive the plot either.